Color Challenge #8

This week's color challenge is inspired by St. Patrick's Day and by the Care Bear swap page I made since it was about Good Luck Bear and he always reminds me of St. Patty's day ^_~ I changed the colors just a little for the challenge, picking a brighter yellow and blue. To play use at least three of the colors :D If you send me a link to your creation I'll also post a link to it on this post as well! The colors for the challenge are :

Clover Meadow
Key Lime
Sunny Yellow
Breeze

Samples :
Sue's Card
Sparkle's Card
Laurel's Card
Nona's Card
Jenn's Card
Yvonne's Layout
Nicole's Card
Mary's Layout

My example :

Colors : Clover Meadow, Key Lime, Sunny Yellow, Breeze, White Daisy

Papers : Retired B&Ts (Blossom & Carnival)

Stamps : Star Struck, Cobblestone Alpha

Accents : Carnival Sassy Strands, pop dots, cuttlekids snake die

Sorry this is so late. After having a migraine all throughout the weekend I barely felt well enough to just post the colors real quickly on the CTMH forums on Monday. Thank you to the many ladies that emailed me or posted asking how I was doing. It helped cheer me up so much!!Monday night and Tuesday I was starting to feel better and yesterday I was finally able to get back to creating. After over a week of not doing any crafting, it was so nice to sit down and play! I actually wanted to make a St. Patty's day card for this color challenge since that's what inspired me, but I ended up using these cute pics of Caitie asleep with Snake for a layout to help me catch up. Snake is her beloved lovie. He's a rattlesnake beanie baby (so many people ask if he's a worm, lol). He goes everywhere Caitie does :D I used the only die I own on this layout, the little snake from the cuttlekids line. I bought it specifically for Snake ^_~. Caitie has already had me make a couple for her to play with. She calls them baby snakes, lol!

Inspiration Challenge

Jena posted an inspiration challenge last night on the CTMH forum and today I played. The challenge was to use this jordache tag as inspiration. Well I did two layouts. The first one actually bears no resemblance at all to the tag. In fact you can't even really tell how it inspired this layout. With the second layout, however, the inspiration is obvious and actually lends a theme to the entire layout.

The first layout :

Colors : Cocoa, Hollyhock, Cranberry, Heavenly Blue, Chocolate, Col White

Papers : Minds Eye Valentine Pack

Stamps : Adorable, Amore Alphas

Accents : Rhinestones, Just Blooms White Daisy, Heidi Swapp flowers, Buttons (various), Chocolate Bigger Brads, Chocolate Ribbon Rounds, Hollyhock Brads

I was inspired by the red in the tag and casual feeling it gave. These pictures of Caitie are of her in one of her favorite comfy dresses. A dress she often wore with a jean jacket. And since the tag was from jordache jeans these pics came to mind. Well I started putting the layout together. After I picked these papers the ideas just seemed pop. I used a page maps layout for basic inspiration though I changed it up quite a bit. In the end this layout is far more pink than red and to me has nothing to do with the tag. But I started out with it on my mind for this layout.

The second layout :

Colors : Outdoor Denim, Cranberry, White, Buttercup, Garden Green, Heavenly Blue

Papers : Back to School, Let's Get Together

Stamps : Blue Jeans, Create-a-file, Simple Stitches, Sketcky Caps, Rustic Alpha

Accents : Just Blooms White Daisy, Red Button, Heavenly Blue Bigger Brads, Garden Green Accents, Garden Green Ribbon Rounds, Circle Window Charms, White Brads, Cranberry Grosgrain

Using Monologue from Imagine. You can really see what inspiration I pulled from the tag in this layout. I took the red from the tag as well as the jeans for the theme. I don't have any cranberry, outdoor denim, buttercup, or heavenly blue accessories so this one was a tough layout to embellish since I had to make due with what I did have. I pulled the colors from the ribbon to help with embellishing. The pocket on the right page holds a bouquet of journaling strips with little facts about Audrey like her nickname is Audrey-poo, her favorite foods are pasta and ice cream, and she loves to play pat-a-cake and the popcorn song, etc.

Color Challenge #7

Wow!! We had so many players last week for the color challenge :D Thank you ladies for playing!! I love seeing all these different ideas. On to this week, it's a bit late since I've had a crazy Monday. The colors were inspired in part by the paper on my flower bella card for the Bella Reveal Challenges and by spring in general. Color Challenge for this week is :

Buttercup
Lilac Mist
Garden Green
Bamboo

To play create a new project (card, layout, altered item, etc.) using at least 3 of the 4 colors. You can send me a link to your creation and I'll post a link to your sample on this thread. Have fun!

Sue's Layout and Card
Laurel's first two cards and her third card
Sparkle's Card
Emilee Ann's Card
Jane's Triple Challenge Card
Marcia's Card

My example :



Colors : Bamboo, Garden Green, Lilac Mist, Buttercup, Colonial White

Papers : Life Delights, Sonata, Floral Tapestry

Accents : Dimensional Elements Alpha and Ribbon Slides, Rhinestones, Buttons, Col White Grosgrain, Garden Green Accessories, Flower sequins, Just Blooms White Daisy, Bigger Blooms, Col White Brads, Sewing

I have a hard time scrapping just one photo. It didn't used to be that way. When I first started scrapping 12x12 pages I did one photo and 2 photo layouts all the time. I have five 70 page 12x12 albums of Caitlyn's FIRST year because of scrapping that way lol. Some of them had a few more pictures than that, but the majority was one photo on one page and two photos on the matching page. I'm also one of those people who has to scrap every photo. After seeing that this method was just not reasonable for as many pictures as I take I tried to include more photos on a layout. Now I usually have an average of about 7 pictures between a two page layout though the only thing I think has really changed is that I just take more pictures of the same event lol. So really I'm probably scrapping the same amount of pages, I'm just taking more pictures to fill them up with! Anyway, I decided to try sewing on this layout. The thread isn't nearly as visible as I would have liked but that's probably a good thing seeing as my sewing is anything but straight, lol. I have terrible sewing skills! I'm going to go with the idea that my crooked sewing makes the page look more whimsical ^_~

Bella Reveal Challenges

I'm glad I checked up on the bella forum today as I had totally spaced the new bella line reveal on Friday! Crazy me! So I played today for the challenges. Good thing they weren't due until Monday night ^_~

BRSC22 - Sketch challenge and slight BRIC22 accessories challenge

Colors : Lilac Mist, White Daisy, Colonial White

Paper : Unknown

Stamps : Flowahbella, From Me to You (CTMH)

Accents : Eyelets and brads in col white, ivory organdy, garden green safety pin, dried baby breath

This is the first card I did. Made for the Bella Reveal Sketch Challenge. I thought it would be fun to use some of the baby breath from my Valentine's bouquet in her flower pot. I made a slit across the top of her pot and put the stem from the baby breath through there, pulling and popping off some of the lower flower buds until I got it to where I wanted it. I secured the stem in the back with good old fashioned scotch tape.I've had this paper forever and finally just pulled it out and used it! Flowahbella's dress is also pieced with the same flower paper. Her pot is pieced from the lilca mist CS. All around a pretty easy card, the hardest part was piecing her dress.

BRBG22 - Use as much bling/glitter as you want

Colors : Kiwi, Black, White

Paper : Minds Eye, Bazzil shimmer/textured CS, CMTH CS

Stamps : Rockabella, Delightful Alpha

Accents : Rhinestones, Pink Glitter, Prisma Glitter

Made for the bella bling/glitter challenge. I glittered the background paper flowers with prisma glitter. Rockabella's guitar and hair highlights are glittered with the pink glitter. Rhinestones on the photo corners and on her guitar and shimmer CS used. A very fun card :D I really enjoyed putting this one together. Her outfit is pieced from the striped coordinating Minds Eye paper.

BRIC22 - Use an embellishment that's not a normal embellishment

Colors : Baby Pink, Black, White, Hollyhock

Papers : Stylin' (CTMH), Bazzil Shimmer/Text CS

Stamps : Dryabella, Doodle Alpha

Accents : Black brads, Black hair clips

So I thought using hair clips would be a cute idea. These were bigger than I thought they would be. I wish I had some of the baby ones or the ones my girl has a few months ago with fun flowers on the end (they don't keep clips in their hair), but I figured these would do. I tried to keep the card a little more clean since bella is just getting out of the shower ^_~

Lovely

Colors : Cranberry, Sweet Leaf, Bamboo, Black, Col White

Papers : Silhouette, Heart of Winter Campaign Scrapbook Kit ('06)

Stamps : Asian Chic? (retired), circle floral image RAK from Sue

I've had this picture forever. It's one of the handful of pictures from before I got preggers with Caitie that I hadn't scrapped. This is my cousin Cheryl (16) and me (18) in the picture. It was at a family reunion. I'm all dressed up because I had to sing on stage :P The page doesn't feel quite 'done' to me, but it's late so I'll look at it later to see if I still think it needs anything.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Colors : Baby Pink, Amethyst, Buttercup, Sweet Leaf, Col White

Papers : Sugar & Spice

Stamps : Star Struck, Extreme Caps, Vroom Caps

These stars have always looked so very masculine to me. And I was thinking that they would be really cute in pale blue, orange, and green for a little boy. Well I get to making these pages and think that stars would just be so cute. But the only stars I have are from star struck. I thought I'd give it a whirl anyway and they turned out so cute! I had initially bought the stamp set for the photo corners and the arrows but I've switched. It's the stars I love now!